Italy's appeal court on September 3 reviewed the case of extraditing a Ukrainian man suspected of being attacked by Germany in three branches of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in 2022. The appeal court has postponed the trial until September 9.
The information was published by Nicola Canestrini - lawyer of suspect Serhii K.
Suspect Serhii K, 49, was arrested in August near the coastal town of Rimini in Italy under a European wanted warrant issued by Germany.
The lawyer said the appeal court in Bologna, about 120km northwest of Rimini, is seeking information about the conditions for detention of the suspect in Germany.
Suspect Serhii K denied any involvement in the attack on the gas pipeline connecting Russia and Germany and called on the Italian judiciary not to sacrifice his personal rights by allowing the extradition of the suspect from Italy to Germany.
According to a German prosecutor's office released in August, suspect Serhii K was a member of a group that planted explosives in gas pipelines near the Danish island of Bornholm.
Serhii K faces charges of collusion in causing the explosion, destroying the civil code and destroying important works.
German prosecutors accused suspect Serhii K and his accomplices of traveling by rented yacht from Rostock, a German coast guard, to the site of the attack.
Italian Carabinieri police arrested suspect Serhii K on August 21 in San Clement, a small town near Rimini, on the Adriatic coast of Italy. The suspect was on vacation with his family at the time of his arrest.
The Nord Stream suspect told an Italian court that he was a former soldier.
